BOUVIER, J. Signature on the portrait of the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P., showing the New Exchange, Glasgow, in the background. Published by Wm. Spooner, 377, Strand. Lithograph in the National Portrait Gallery. BRANDES, MINNA. Born 1765, in Berlin. A girl’s head thus named, probably herself, done by some silhouettist of the day, appears in the operettas published in Germany in 1799 (see Bibliography). BRETTANER, BARBARA (1721). Parchment cutter. BROWN, MISS. Said to have cut Gibbons’s profile without a sitting. BROWN, WILLIAM HENRY. Born May 22nd, 1808, in Charlestown, South Carolina. Itinerated in the United States. He cut mostly full-length portraits, and called his studio the Brown Gallery in whatever town he worked. A book was published with twelve silhouettes by him, mostly full-lengths with elaborate backgrounds, also facsimile autograph letters of the people whose portraits are given (for full title of book, see Bibliography). BRUCE, I., 85, Farringdon Street; and 3, Somerset Place, Brighton. Signature on a series of early nineteenth-century portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, which include Lord John Russell and William IV. BURMESTER (1770). Court silhouettist in Berlin. CAPUCHIN, F. AGATHAUGDUS BONNENSIS. Signature on fine cut paper; ornament with bishop’s arms. CHARLES, 130, Strand. Worked with pen and Indian ink; sometimes he used colour on the dress. A signed specimen of Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, and one of Fanny Burney, owned by Mr. Wellesley; others owned by Mr. Leslie and Mr. F. G. Rowson. In his advertisement, which bears an engraved head on the label, he describes himself as “the first profilist in England,” 138, Strand, XI., XV., XIX. CLARKE, W. (1781), of Newcastle. Painted on plaster. Label on an example in the Wellesley collection. COOPER. Signature on portrait of a man painted on card in red brown touched with gold. Date 1833. At Knole. COOS (1782). Signature on woman’s profile portrait on gold glass background; in the collection at Knole. XXI. CURTIS, ELEANOR PARK (1779-1852), step-daughter of Washington, first President U.S.A., whose silhouette she cut at Mount Vernon in 1798. This portrait is bust size, looking right. DEINVEL, F. Silhouettes cut out of paper blackened with Indian ink, the hair, lace, and other ornaments being added with the pen on the mount; engraved mounts sometimes used. DEMPSEY. “Profilist. Established No. 30, Manchester Street. Likenesses in shade, 3d.! Bronzed, 6d.!! Coloured, 2s. 6d. Observe it is Dempsey’s.” Advertisement label on two full-length men’s portraits with painted sepia background. Owner: Mr. Desmond Coke. DENON, DOMINIQUE. Medallist, engraver, silhouettist. Born Châlon-sur-Saone, died in Paris. He accompanied Napoleon to Egypt. His silhouettes are mounted with elaborate borders. DESFONEAUX, T. E. DEWEY (1800). Name on silhouette of Ambrose Clarke, in the possession of Mrs. Wm. A. Fisher, U.S.A. DEYVERDUNS. Eighteenth-century silhouettist.